White County Sheriff Pat Shafer said 57-year-old Dwight Lewark has been arrested on preliminary charges of dealing methamphetamine.

Shafer said a deputy and a Monticello police officer got a tip of possible drug activity at a home on U.S. 24 in Idaville. Sheriff Shafer said when officers arrived they found things commonly used to make meth. State police were called in to help with the investigation.

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